Abundant Abiding Love: Spirituality and Conversations with Saint Gertrude the Great

Saint Gertrude the Great (1256-c1301) has been called the Herald of Divine Love. She was a prayerful person, an inspired poet and mystic. She had a style and sensitivity to beautiful imagery and a unique way of conversing with God. Above all she was capable of being swept away by her passionate nature and devotion to the Heart of Jesus.

Gertrude’s unique and personal relationship with Jesus which she expresses in prayer in her spiritual Exercises is the focus of the first part of this book. In the second part, the author converses with Gertrude about each of her seven spiritual Exercises.

Margaret Paton taught philosophy at Edinburgh University for nearly thirty years before coming to Australia in 1994. In 2007 she became a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. She has taught religion in State schools on the central coast of NSW and in the Diocese of Wollongong. She is the author of Mary MacKillop: The Ground of Her Loving (Darton Longman & Todd, 2010), and Julian of Norwich: Voice of Divine Love (St Pauls Publications, 2022)